diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-additional.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci-additional.yaml
index bb39f1875e9..cf571b237fd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-additional.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-additional.yaml
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - "main"
+      - "backend-indexing"
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - "main"
+      - "backend-indexing"
   workflow_dispatch: # allows you to trigger manually
 
 concurrency:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 9724c18436e..8a282a1d2ba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - "main"
+      - "backend-indexing"
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - "main"
+      - "backend-indexing"
   workflow_dispatch: # allows you to trigger manually
 
 concurrency: